Laptops open, introductions are made, people start tossing out episode ideas for his approval.It takes zero time for all of them, Diplo included, to assemble behind one computer to watch different YouTube videos, geeking out about animation. It’s the only time I can. And many schools that have resumed in-person classes have already reported outbreaks. “I was in Vegas on Friday night. He can’t get away with being half-present anymore. I look back to Diplo, who suddenly seems to have more in common with this sweater dad than his former self. I wonder if they are endlessly fascinated (or terrified) by the heated high-tech toilet that functions more like a video-game console; if women who come over are more impressed by the gold records that decorate the walls or Diplo announces the takeout vegan Thai food has been delivered, and everyone hustles into the kitchen to gather around the vast black-marble island and eat family style. He’s been immersed in the music world since he was bouncing around high schools in Florida in the mid-1990s, driving to Orlando with his friends when they weren’t hanging out at the Barnes & Noble in Daytona, where he lived. But he’s been getting better about time management, he says, to be consistently present. He just never stops working.”But while Diplo sets the relentless pace of his existence, it takes a sprawling constellation of agents, managers, assistants, trainers, photographers, publicists and other personnel to keep Planet Diplo spinning with the speed and intensity of a Gravitron. He’s got half a dozen versions of himself, each with a defined style to go with the musical output — Diplo (just him), LSD (psychedelic pop with SIA and Labrinth), Major Lazer (reggae with his buddies Ape Drums and Walshy Fire), Silk City (house with Mark Ronson), Jack Ü (pure EDM with Skrillex). I can take off the cowboy hat, but that’s about it.”Diplo has always been a bit of a savant in terms of branding, something he learned in part through his early-career collaborations with British-Sri Lankan rapper Extending that idea, creative director Sara Nataf has helped Diplo delineate projects by creating a persona for each. Diplo needs to meet with the writers’ room for the relaunch of Major Lazer, the short-lived FXX animated series he created based on his first and best-known music project, the electronic-dancehall group of the same name. “I knew then I’d probably have his kids one day. And you know what? Words like “superhuman” are floated. The activity was offered to me. You’ll run out of things during the course of the year. In a new documentary, the famously reclusive designer talks for the first time in years. They’re losing their voices, minds, and shit over them. “I think we all love what we do,” says McNees.

I give in. That’s why I couldn’t tell you I was late, actually.”While he is technically a bit behind schedule, you could argue that when you are Diplo — the DJ, producer and all-around bon vivant born Thomas Wesley Pentz, known as Wes to his friends — it’s less that you are ever really running late, and more that time kind of reorganizes itself around you, leaving you perpetually well-situated on the strange and singular timeline of your strange and singular life.Given an Instagram feed that makes that life look like an endless conga line of festivals, parties, private jets and foreign landscapes, it may seem counterintuitive that Diplo even has a house in the first place. I want to be healthier and live longer.” He was inspired by a movie called One by one, we finish eating and load our plates into the dishwasher. Biden’s Fantasy of Female Submission Can you believe that?” he says, noting that his Tesla recently had a software update and thus parked itself — which he liked. Deep down, he was just a nerd,” she adds. When Diplo went surfing in Ghana, photographer-videographer Joe Larkin got to go too. He was very … Wes.” Then a different sort of Wes began to emerge. When the camera is rolling, however, Diplo, used to dancing from the waist up, keeps forgetting to engage his lower body.“Wes! Diplo’s home doubles as his studio, his office, and a crash pad for friends. “It’s kind of the one benefit of being a musician,” he says of the wardrobe perks. Although I do like to go to the gym in the morning. Given the 8,700 miles and 20-hour flight between Los Angeles and Mumbai, India, it stands to reason that most folks making the trek might stay for at least a week. He comes out to the deck to rally us all into a car. “Who wants to go to this concert?,” he asks, before herding a few of us, now too stoned to resist, into an Uber.In the car, Diplo settles into what seems like his most natural state: sitting low in the shadowy back seat of an SUV, controlling the playlist, energy restored by a sparkling matcha and the promise of the night out.As we walk up to the stadium, chatting about the music Lockett likes (not the JoBros, as it were), Diplo stops suddenly, in awe of the deafening wall of shrieks and roar of pure, raging hormones from all the fans going crazy for the Jonas Brothers. He got too busy on Friday to make the meeting on Sunday, he explains. Share on Facebook; Share on Twitter; Related; Most Viewed; Latest; Purple Diary.